Wednesday, December 4, 2024

$100 million worth of U.S. energy revolution going up in smoke

In North Dakota, technology has unlocked the oil and gas of the U.S. shale revolution, but it’s not without growing pains. In the Bakken region near Williston, North Dakota, we found farmers who can’t get their product to market while more than one quarter of the natural gas being produced is going, not to gas plants, but to waste. Also, oil shipped out to refineries on trains has been involved …

Bakken takes Belmont feature

NEW YORK (AP) Bakken cruised to a three-length victory Thursday in the $80,000 allowance feature at Belmont Park.

Bakken oil pipeline, Sandpiper, delayed

Daniel J. Graeber HOUSTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) — The Sandpiper pipeline designed to carry oil from the Bakken reserve area in North Dakota through Minnesota is delayed, Enbridge Energy Partners said.

Enbridge eyes Mainline oil pipe expansion if demand strong

By Julie Gordon and Scott Haggett (Reuters) – Enbridge Inc , Canada’s largest pipeline operator, said on Tuesday it may have to build new pipeline capacity from its Superior, Wisconsin, storage hub if oil shipments from Canada and the Bakken shale field of North Dakota keep expanding. Speaking at the company’s annual investor day in Toronto, Guy Jarvis, head of the oil pipeline unit, said …

Searching for the Good Life in the Bakken Oil Fields

As oil production hit 1 million barrels a day this past spring, the state began a marketing push to woo even more workers with the slogan “Find the Good Life in North Dakota.” Because everyone, including the cashiers, made so much money, the Bison had to charge a lot.